Arts Crafts Sterling Tea Strainer, Emmy Roth, Germany C.1920. The hammered silver strainer of plain square form with curvilinear stylised handle. Full marks to reverse. Measures: 4.75 x 3.00 x 1.00 inches. Weight: 66.50 grams. Emmy Roth [Hattingen 1885 – 1942 Tel Aviv] her style evolved from richly decorated small appliances through an expressionist modernist style to a simple, Bauhaus influenced style. Born into a Jewish merchant family of the educated middle class, she studied in Dusseldorf, Berlin and Paris. She founded her own workshop in Charlottenburg in Berlin around 1910 and was active there until 1933. She enjoyed a steady patronage until the rise of the National Socialists in 1933. As a Jewish artist she was forced to flee and worked for a period in France and the Netherlands designing for the Zilverfabriek Voorschoten before settling permanently in Tel Aviv in 1939. She died in 1942.
Literature: FrauenSilber. Paula Straus, Emmy Roth & Co. Silversmiths of the Bauhaus period.
Arts Crafts Sterling Tea Strainer, Emmy Roth, Germany C.1920
by Louis WineArts Crafts Sterling Tea Strainer, Emmy Roth, Germany C.1920. The hammered silver strainer of plain square form with curvilinear stylised handle. Full marks to reverse. Measures: 4.75 x 3.00 x 1.00 inches. Weight: 66.50 grams. Emmy Roth [Hattingen 1885 – 1942 Tel Aviv] her style evolved from richly decorated small appliances through an expressionist modernist style to a simple, Bauhaus influenced style. Born into a Jewish merchant family of the educated middle class, she studied in Dusseldorf, Berlin and Paris. She founded her own workshop in Charlottenburg in Berlin around 1910 and was active there until 1933. She enjoyed a steady patronage until the rise of the National Socialists in 1933. As a Jewish artist she was forced to flee and worked for a period in France and the Netherlands designing for the Zilverfabriek Voorschoten before settling permanently in Tel Aviv in 1939. She died in 1942.
Literature: FrauenSilber. Paula Straus, Emmy Roth & Co. Silversmiths of the Bauhaus period.
Louis Wine
Louis Wine Ltd., Toronto specialists in Antique Silver , Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts, are a 4th generation family business.Louis Wine (1865-1946) founded the company in Dublin, Ireland in 1880. Louis Wine began selling to silver collectors in Dublin from a shop in historic Wellington Quay. In 1908, he located on Dublin's fashionable Grafton Street. To the firm came the worlds leading Georgian Silver collectors. Pieces by Paul de Lamerie, Paul Storr, Hester Bateman and Irish Georgian Silver were constantly on display. Our gallery run by Richard (Louis Wine's great grandson) at 150 Cumberland Street (Yorkville), Toronto, displays a range of fine Antique Silver, Old Sheffield Plate, Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts from the 18th-20th century, including Bateman, Storr, Ramsden, Tiffany, Knox, Liberty, Jensen, Christopher Dresser.
